Chapter 21: Arresting the Assassins

The farther north I went, the colder the weather became, and the whole person was reluctant to move around the fire.

Wen Qi clenched his collar, knocked on the elbow of a person beside him, and got up and went out with the empty teapot.

Sensing the gesture of the person beside him, the stone picked up the firewood and shook the ashes at the bottom of the stove, got up casually to get the firewood, and flashed out of the cabin bunk while no one was noticing.

"Childe, don't worry, no one is coming."

After the disguise, the stone has a dark complexion and mediocre facial features, and his eyes are lowered to cover the cleverness in his eyes, which is not noticeable.

"How is my cousin, you sent firewood to the kitchen before, did you hear anything?"

Wen Qi pulled her face, she spent so much money on her cousin to buy a human skin mask on the black market, although it was very easy to use, but it was also a little uncomfortable to wear for a long time.

"Miss Cousin can't drink the medicine, and the fever won't go away for a while, but the little one has found some clues."

"Let's talk about it."

The seasickness evolved into a high fever that did not go away, and the Tong family was puzzled, and Wen Lan fainted in a hurry, and she was too busy to take care of herself.

Tong Huaiyuan has to take care of his wife and worry about his daughter, and he is also worried about losing a lot of beard.

As soon as the imperial doctor's diagnosis came out, Tong Huaiyuan was suspicious, if it weren't for the fact that he took care of the palace, he would have started a large-scale search, and the top priority was to make his daughter and wife get better.

In Tong Qingyan's room, Pearl and Double Happiness are guarding, and the two girls have never seen their own young lady like this, and they are holding on to their spirits.

"Miss, wake up, Miss......"

Pearl's rounded cheeks were slimming down at a visible rate, and she couldn't eat much every day, which was something that would never have happened before Tong Fu.

Shuangxi scrubbed Tong Qingyan every two tea times to cool down, praying that the temperature of her hot hands would drop down quickly.

When Wen Qi and Shi appeared, Shuangxi seemed to have found a reassuring pill, and knelt on the ground with a plop.

"Cousin, please save my young lady."

Outsiders don't know much about the true ability of the eldest son of the Wen family, but Shuangxi and Pearl know it clearly, the eldest lady of the Wen family has very good medical skills, although the eldest son of Wen is not as good as her, but he has also learned seventy or eighty percent.

The stone consciously stepped forward to help Shuangxi, a strong amusement and comfort, and directly ignored the pearl, and the pearl didn't have the heart to worry about him at the moment.

Wen Qi walked to the side of the bed, looked at Tong Qingyan's red cheeks, and reached out to pinch her hot wrist.

Since childhood, this cousin has basically never been sick, and a seasick girl with such a strong body can be injured like this, who believes that there is no hidden feeling!

The results of the pulse check are consistent with the conclusion of the imperial doctor, the high fever caused by the cold does not go away, if ordinary people suffer from the cold is actually not so serious, but when the seasickness is serious and weak, this will be fatal.

"How's Miss?"

"The pulse is weak, and if you burn it like this, even if you don't die, you have to burn stupidly."

"Cousin ......"

"Okay, okay, find a way to pour the medicine down to her, I'm here for something else."

There is plenty of heating in the wing, the windows are opened and closed regularly for ventilation, everything looks normal, but it is this wind evil that enters the body, which is intriguing.

Since my cousin was seasick, Pearl and Double Happiness always had someone to accompany them, opening the windows regularly during the day to ventilate, and sleeping with the windows closed at night, it stands to reason that my cousin didn't have a chance to blow the cold wind.

Wen Qizai carefully checked the window inch by inch, and finally found a little mark in the corner, not left by the blade, this cut mark should be left by a small object such as a hairpin.

"Come and see the stones."

Wen Qi and Shitou studied the window next to each other, although Shuangxi and Pearl didn't know the specifics, they had already reacted, and Miss's high fever did not go away because someone assassinated.

Pearl felt that her lungs were about to be blown up, and the one who could assassinate Miss on this ship was just that, and the one who had a grudge was the scheming in the palace.

"Cousin, what can you find, what do you want the slave to do?"

Double Happiness is much more reliable than Pearl, and the first reaction to knowing that Miss was killed is to help find evidence, but Pearl doesn't have this brain circuit, she only knows that those who dare to bully Miss are looking for death.

"Double happiness, you accompany your cousin, I'll go to the old lady."

"Come back!"

"Stop!"

Shuangxi and Wen Qi left people at the same time, Shi rolled his eyes, for this fat girl, his impression has always been that he is barbaric and stupid, and it is true.

"It's just that there is a little clue, and I haven't determined who killed your young lady, what's the use of you being so eager to tell Master Tong about them? If you don't do it, you have to startle the snake, isn't that a harm to your young lady who has nowhere to redress her grievances? ”

Although the stone changed its appearance, it was still as ruthless as ever in the face of pearls, and did not hide its contempt.

Although Pearl has a bad temper, but when it comes to Tong Qingyan, he still has a little bit of patience, and when he heard the stone say this, he felt that it made a little sense, and he endured it in the end.

"It's nothing if I don't talk about it now, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the bad woman named Mingyue in front of the princess, she wanted to cheat my young lady before."

Wen Qi asked Shuangxi with his eyes, and Shuangxi carefully recalled it before and after, and said the festival of Mingyue and Hanlian Garden, confirming that there was no omission, and expressing his doubts with some uncertainty.

"Actually, from the very beginning, the slave maid couldn't understand why this Mingyue couldn't get along with my young lady, and the young lady didn't know her before."

"Why else, there is jealousy among women, it must be that your young lady has inadvertently offended her. You can't think of it yourself, and she definitely won't say it, and now only by finding evidence that she murdered her cousin can the palace give an explanation, but if it's really her, then she is also impatient, and even Xiunu dares to murder. ”

Wen Qi took out a small paper bag from his bosom, filled it with some firewood ashes, and gently sprinkled a layer on the marks in the corner of the windowsill.

Leaned over and blew away the excess ash, took the plain silk handkerchief that Shuangxi carried with him and dipped it in some water, covered it with a mark.

Several cut marks of different shades, it is not difficult to carefully identify and compare to find out the hairpin, but the difficulty is how to open this mouth to check the hairpin of the female dependent.

Tongfu has an uncle, and he is not afraid of tossing, but if it involves the palace, it is not so easy to investigate.

Wen Qi and Shi had been away for a long time, and they had to leave quickly for fear of being suspected, and as soon as they finished explaining Double Happiness and Pearl, there was a knock on the door of Tong Qingyan's wing.

The four people in the room were stunned for a moment, and then exploded in an instant.

Shi and Wen Qi appear here now, once they are found to be beaten violently, it is certain, even if they show their true faces, it will be over, Tong Qingyan's reputation is ruined, not to mention, she is a show girl, and things will be more troublesome.

It wasn't that she didn't think about going out of the window, but Wen Qi was worried about missing any evidence and was unwilling to destroy the crime scene, so in the end, the two of them couldn't get under Tong Qingyan's bed together.

As soon as the two of them lay down, the door was opened.

It was Tong Manjiao and Tong Manjiao who came in, looking at the unconscious third sister lying on the bed, both of them had sincere worries on their faces.

Tong Manji's thinking is very simple, this third sister's cooking skills are so good, if she really goes, there will be no good food in the future.

Although Tong Manjiao was unhappy that Tong Qingyan won the blue eyes of the princess because of her cooking skills, after all, they were sisters who grew up together since childhood, and they couldn't bear it when they saw that they were going to die.

"I've seen the eldest lady and the second lady."

"Get up, isn't my sister's fever gone?"

There is no need for anyone to answer this question, just look at it with your eyes.

Shuangxi remembered the entrustment of Prince Wen just now, waited for Tong Manjiao and the two to sit down, served tea, and spoke calmly.

"The doctor said that the young lady was blown by the wind and suffered from the cold, and it would be good if the heat dissipated."

Tong Manjiao picked up the tea and put it down to her lips, leaned over, and approached the bed.

"Didn't you say seasickness, why did you catch a cold? Did your young lady go out to blow the wind? It stands to reason that if the third sister goes out, my sister and I will definitely know, her house is in the innermost. ”

"That's right, the third sister is seasick and vomits so badly, how can she go out? It's just weird. ”

Tong Manji felt strange from the beginning, and today her sister proposed to visit her sister, and she did not hesitate at all.

Today, the two of them also went to greet the princess as usual, and the dress was very in line with everyone's demeanor, and the eyes of double happiness shuttled between the two of them's buns, and they didn't see anything wrong.

Finally waiting for the two to leave, Wen Qi and Shi crawled out from under the bed, cautiously flashed out of the room and returned to the cabin.

The cold wind was cold, and everyone in the cabin wrapped themselves tightly in quilts and slept next to each other as much as possible, although there was a stove, but this little heat was still not warm enough in the Chase Shop.

The two closest beds by the stove are Wen Qi and Shishi, and the identities of the two of them can't get these two positions at all, but in order to facilitate getting up at night, the two scattered a lot of silver money, so that everyone is willing to give up the fight.

The snoring was everywhere, and the stone was the first to get up, and he didn't deliberately slow down, so he woke up next to his own steward Wang.

"It's easy to get up at night, and you can go back to sleep."

Without waiting for Steward Wang to lie down, the stone came out of the shop and went straight to the floor of Tong Qingyan's wing.

The Tongfu guards on duty only felt a cold wind blowing in front of them, and instinctively shrunk their necks, the wind in the north was really cold.

At dusk, Tong Qingyan was forcibly poured several large bowls of medicine, and the heat finally subsided, but she still had a low-grade fever, her consciousness was better, and her waking time was almost a cup of tea.

Pearl and Shuangxi discussed, Pearl in the first half of the night, and at this moment it was Shuangxi's turn in the second half of the night, according to the arrangement of Young Master Wen, Shuangxi stood by the window at this moment, and pulled the window sash tightly with both hands.

Suddenly, an extremely slight sound came, a voice that you would never notice in normal times, but at this special time tonight, it seemed to be invisibly amplified.

"Catch the assassin!"

The hidden stone threw out a hidden weapon, and then shouted loudly.

The black shadow by the window was hit by a hidden weapon, and he exhaled in pain, turned around and ran, and the tools of the crime inserted in the crack of the window could not be cared for.

The shout of the stone woke up the whole ship, the lights were lit one by one, and the guards of the Tongfu rushed to hear the sound first, and Shuangxi stood in front of the window, holding the murder weapon wrapped in a silk handkerchief.

Pointing in the direction of the assassin's escape, the guards in the palace chased after him, and finally chased him to the three-story palace wing.

All the guards stopped at the staircase, and the chief of the guards, Tong Chen, thought about it, ordered someone to guard the stairs, and ran to Tong Tong Master himself.

On this night, the cold wind howled, and everyone was destined to have difficulty sleeping.